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RDRTec’s RACAS’s Active Element Scanned Array design approach to meet collision avoidance performance, SWaPC and cost goals utilizes RDRTec’s unique array topology.RDRTec has been developing, enhancing, and extending the Common Radar Airborne Collision Avoidance System (C-RACAS) and associated modeling and simulation tools for non-cooperative conflict avoidance for both Triton and Fire Scout ...

MCA is an innovative combination of maritime feature extraction algorithms, target database, and user interface that aid operators in rapidly and effectively classify maritime targets. To date MCA has exploited scattering features that are the result of scattering off static (non-rotating) ship structure returns as well as wake returns in Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) and High Range Reso ...

In this SBIR program, Structured Materials Industries, Inc. and partners will develop electro optic phase modulators with flat frequency response, low switching voltage and multi-decade environmental lifetime. The SBIR team will develop the materials and the fabrication technology for the high precision phase modulators, and demonstrate their performance benefits for strategic grade, high precisio ...

MaXentric is proposing to develop, design, simulate, fabricate and test a fully integrated and flyable DARWIN based pod. The proposed HW and SW architecture is constructed around a proven and tested HW/SW concepts paired with a proven w-band based steerable antenna technology that allows for a highly directional full duplex backhaul links with throughputs up to 1000 Mbps (at W-band) connecting 2 o ...

For years the DoD ATE community has been trying to build an open architecture environment that would support avionic testing across and within services. Little progress has been made in this area due to lack of applicable standards and a common vocabulary that could communicate test requirements required by the various users. This has led to non-standard designs in the ATEs and their associated to ...

An algorithmic approach for estimation of encountered turbulence intensity for UAS platforms is proposed for development, that leverage prior experience in development and testing of an icing detection scheme for tiltrotor aircraft. The methodology borrows from Fault Detection Filter design approaches, and uses a model-based scheme that is sufficiently general to permit its adoption onto a host of ...

US Navy V-22 Osprey assets are highly susceptible to debris buildup on critical aluminum bodied heat exchangers. Operating in harsh desert or marine environments is the primary causes of debris buildup. A self-cleaning coating technology developed specifically for V-22 heat exchanger units will enable the aircraft to function more efficiently, and extend its operational range. We have identified a ...

Tetramer Technologies, a specialty materials research company, aims to develop a more robust elastomer material for cushioned clamps used by the Navy. Cushioned clamps serve an important role in securing hydraulic, fuel, and electrical lines in Navy aircraft. The existing cushions have shown sporadic and unreliable breakdown in use, despite being rated to a rigorous MIL standard. Tetramer proposes ...

In an effort to extend the service life of the Navy’s aging fleet of F/A-18E-F Super Hornets, the U.S. Navy has launched a comprehensive modification program to enable the fighter jets to fly more than 50-percent longer than originally intended. Under the PMA 265 Acquisition Program, it is expected to push the flight hours of the Hornet’s Service Life Extension Program from 6,000 flight hours ...

The objective will be to develop and evaluate electrically insulating materials for improved passive thermal management of high-power electronics. The proposed materials will improve both performance and efficiency, prolong lifetime, and reduce lifecycle costs with enhanced thermal conductivity while remaining electrically insulating. During the Phase I program, UDC will formulate thermally conduc ...